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Watson, Janet, b. 1910
Watson comes from a prominent Aboriginal family from the lower Murray region of South Australia. She learnt weaving from her older female relatives - the ...
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Bennett Pottery
Aarons, Anita, b. 1912
Anita Aarons had a diverse career working as a jeweller, sculptor, art administrator, radio commentator, teacher and art editor for an architecture publication, while living ...
Hearn Bros. and Stead
Hearn Bros. and Stead was started by emigre twin brothers Henry and Ernest Hearn, sons of cabinetmaker/chair maker Walter Vincent Hearn. The company is known ...
Ricketts & Thorp
Ricketts & Thorp were Sydney manufacturers of fine furniture. The designs were often to the clients' specifications. They worked for the NSW State Government, the ...
Alcorso, Claudio, b. 1913
Claudio Alcorso was the founder of Modernage Fabrics, Silk and Textile Printers in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney. Australian and NZ artists and designers produced prints including ...
Collins, Ibi, b. 1913
Designer and maker at Collins Gloves
Pryor, Aase, b. 1914
Aase Pryor was one of most significant of Milton Moon's pottery students in Brisbane and combined this skill with jewellery design and theatre work when ...
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Dunn, Phyl, b. 1915
Potter who, with Reg Preston, established a pottery studio at Warrandyte in 1947.
Hempel, Marcella, b. 1915
McMeekin, Ivan, b. 1919
Ivan McMeekin was the founder of the Sturt Pottery at Mittagong and one of the founders of the Potters Society of Australia. From 1959-78, he ...
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Douglas, Mollie, b. 1920
Molly Douglas - potter and educator - was a founding member of the Potters' Society of New South Wales. In the early 1950s, she moved ...
Foster, Isabel, b. 1921
Foster works in textiles with stitching techniques, knotting, crochet, in a eclectic range of forms. He has a special interest in recycling and repurposing materials. ...
Le Grand, Henri, b. 1921
Le Grand came to Australia in 1950 and became a teacher at the Canberra Technical College.
Williams, Ray Forest, b. 1921
Williams was a career Royal Australian Navy officer (retired 1971) who also co-founded the surfwear brand Pratts with his brother Bill, making board shorts and ...
Boddington, Jennie, b. 1922
Jennie Boddington was the first curator of photography to be appointed in Australia. She was responsible for the National Gallery of Victoria's photography collection from ...
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Englund, Patricia, b. 1922
Greeno, Dulcie, b. 1923
Tasmanian Aboriginal shellwork artist born on Cape Barren Island off of the north east coast of Tasmania. Greeno regularly collects shells on the beaches of ...
Howard, Ian, b. 1923
Howard is the founder of Aristoc, a Melbourne furniture design and manufacturing firm (1946-1968). Aristoc produced furniture for Grant Featherstone, Fred Lowen, Ernst Rodeck, William ...
Joynes, Heather, b. 1923
Joynes was an embroiderer and needleworker working in Sydney. She was an active member of the Embroiderers Guild NSW, exhibiting in their exhibitions and other ...